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Texas Community Assessment
for Public Health Response (CASPER) assessment instrument
Updated 10/5/2009
"Good to Go" Hurricane Evacuation Kit
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) teamed
up with the University of Texas Center for Disabilities Studies and distributed thousands of "Good to Go" Hurricane Evacuation kits.
The “Good to Go” kits contained a booklet and forms for
everyone including seniors and individuals with disabilities to
use during a hurricane or disaster evacuation, and included an Emergency Medical
Information form, a Medications List, and an Emergency Contacts List.
The kits are no longer available, but individuals can print the booklet, forms, and lists by following the links below:
Click
here to view the kit's information booklet pages *
Click
here to view the kit's Emergency Lists *
For more information on the University of Texas Center for Disabilities
Studies' Information Services Office, visit their Web site at http://tcds.edb.utexas.edu/.
*
(*links open in new window)
2010 Strategic Vision
Health and Medical Preparedness in Texas (.pdf
367 kb)
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS: Mobilizing State by State
A CDC Report on the Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Cooperative Agreement
CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency
Response (COTPER) has released its inaugural report on public health
emergency preparedness. The report, Public Health Preparedness:
Mobilizing State by State, highlights the progress that has been
made in state and local preparedness and response, identifies preparedness
challenges facing public health departments, and outlines CDC’s
efforts to address those challenges. Designed to increase accountability
regarding the country’s investment in preparedness activities,
the report presents national data as well as state-specific snapshots
for all 50 states and four directly funded localities: Chicago;
Los Angeles County; New York City; and Washington, DC.
Executive Summary,
Background, Methods(.pdf 6,4232 kb)
Section 1:
Public Health Preparedness in the Statets and DC (.pdf
9,157 kb)
Section 2: Snapshots of Public Health Preparedness in States and
Directly Funded Localities (a complete listing of states can be
found at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/publications/feb08phprep/)
States in US Public Health Region VI:
**Arkansas (.pdf
290 kb)
**Louisiana (.pdf
293 kb)
**New Mexico (.pdf
249 kb)
**Oklahoma (.pdf
270 kb)
**Texas (.pdf
251 kb)
Appendices
(.pdf 272 kb)
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